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I think it's a big "meh." Nothing outrageous has occurred. I don't really like any of the characters. And it lacks something that made GoT great--underdog stories.
I can only watch so much (not much) of royal families. I generally find them and their machinations boring. But put a common man at court, maneuvering within these elitists and their bizarre rituals, and I'll watch.
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The first pic I don't find flattering. The second one though......
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I hate that. Between my hearing going to shit and my eyes fading, I have a real hard time following some of these shows. Maybe I should wait for the Helen Keller version.
Okay, I'm going to say this, but I'm not proud, and you are free to delete it.
Here goes...
So, you'll be dragon your fingers across the Braille on the screen?
I'll see myself out.
Have you got to the point where you start accusing the road crews of changing the paint and the asphalt because driving at night is so much harder than it used to be? That's a fun one.
Those bastards started with that shit years ago. I blame Mitch Daniels.
Oh yeah. Bloomington is trying to catch up with Carmel.
We have literally zero traffic lights in Carmel proper now. Unreal.
Edit: I lied. There is one.
What a car insurance rates like in Carmel? I don't think I would want to insure all of the fender benders there, if I was an agent.
Actually Carmel has the fewest instances of injury related accidents. Because of the lack of intersection collisions (which are usually higher speed).
However, fender benders are a noticed at least once a week on my 4 mile drive to and from work.
I present to you, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (yes, it's real - the copyright on Winnie the Pooh expired.)
Not possible, Carmel has roundabouts inside of roundabouts
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Warning: Old man/dad rant to follow.
F*&K every single one of the people involved in the making, distributing, marketing, etc. of this movie. Ruining a delightful childhood fable for children? Way to go. Oh you're sooooooo clever. F*&king amateurs.
Without a doubt, young children will stumble across this trailer and it will taint a beloved, innocent story and memories for those children.
Again, F$%K anyone who decided to make a buck off of something that will, on net, make the world a worse place and steal away a little childhood innocence (maybe the most precious commodity on the planet) from some people.
OK, rant done. Just had to do it.
I am pretty happy with Rings of Power. The series is probably slow by modern standards, but that is SOP for Tolkien who believed the journey is the goal not the destination. So far I am enjoying the trip.
I find people being unhappy that Blacks and other minorities have roles to be both hysterical and sad. We routinely have White Jesus but cannot have a Black elf?
I find people being unhappy that Blacks and other minorities have roles to be both hysterical and sad. We routinely have White Jesus but cannot have a Black elf?
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Haven't watched yet. Is it really that bad? I'm probably one of the few who preferred the LOTR trilogy over the original Star Wars trilogy. The Hobbit movies sucked though.
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Tolkien is now just a brand name for marketing. Rings of Power may be set in a world JRR created but it is not Tolkien.
Not overly happy or unhappy with this, as it's what just I expected, a TV show. Good enough to waste time on.... and a lot depends on how they develop the story.
The sets and scenes are immaculate, you can tell where the money was spent.
At the very least there hasn't been a dwarf riding a pig, or elves shield surfing, yet. So .... that's a huge plus.
Still wish they would have adapted Children of Hurin and the Fall of Gondolin instead. Dark, tragic, better characters, better story. Perfect for an epic TV series ..
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Children of Hurin is owned by the estate, I worry that no story owned by the estate will be a movie until Chris passes. I suspect getting rights to an unknown story was difficult enough, and involved swearing no shield surfing.
fwiw - Christopher passed away a couple years ago ..
I can't remember who is the head of the estate now. Maybe a committee or board but it's rumored that one of the conditions was that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh were not allowed anywhere near this ..
LotR wasn't bad. FotR was excellent, TT and RotK had some cringe worthy parts ... but overall not a bad adaptation. The Hobbit, from Ken doll Thorin, rabbit sleds, to pig riders, was horrendous throughout. .
The idea to fill in the many missing gaps of the 2nd age was a good idea as it gave the creators room to create, but to fill it with common movie/TV tropes?
I'm not overly hateful of this .. I just wish filmmakers would realize that some stories are compelling enough to not use common demographically driven hooks.
It's just starting ... we'll see where they take the story before calling it trash. I want to like it .. I really do.
The trust has been run by a board for a while, now. Chris' widow and nephew are the main people. But I don't know who the literary executor is now. Chris still had that role when this deal was made, which is probably why it is so restrictive.
As an aside, how freaking valuable must the Tolkien brand be that Amazon paid $250 million in a deal that basically let the estate retain creative veto rights.
Netflix is remaking All Quiet on the Western Front. The book was outstanding, the original movie very good, the first remake was good. The trajectory isn't good, but maybe they can pull it off.
Nazi Germany tried to get Remarque back to be tried before the war, they would later behead his sister with the judge basically saying that her brother may be out of reach but she is not. Even well after the war Remarque's mooks were not popular in Germany because he was still viewed as a traitor.
Nazi Germany tried to get Remarque back to be tried before the war, they would later behead his sister with the judge basically saying that her brother may be out of reach but she is not. Even well after the war Remarque's mooks were not popular in Germany because he was still viewed as a traitor.
